How to be an Honest Man

Mira Montaigne is love made manifest. Despite the odds, she and her family lived in peace until the sudden death of her mother. Fearing she would be next, her remaining family sent her out of state.
She'd always been good; stayed out of trouble, earned high marks, and appreciated the life her parents fought to provide her (even though she never felt able to live it to its fullest). Now, unwillingly released from the guidelines and expectations that shaped her, she can do anything, become anyone, because nobody is going to stop her.

Alternatively, the newly unsupervised daughter of a former gangster moves states and takes a chance on a boy her father never would have let her date.

Alternatively-alternatively, if you wanna get REALLY specific, the daughter of a man who survived the LA riots goes moony-eyed over a mysterious boy who looks a lot like the people that shot at him from the rooftops. Despite her veiled advances, he tries to keep her at arm's length because he's under a lot of personal stress--as it turns out, they have a lot in common, but their families aren't the kind that blend well.

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New cover! Also by me! hoes really be doing anything but updating the story